Sports
- Hank Aaron (2002)
- Muhammad Ali (2005)
- Arthur Ashe (1993, posthumously)
- Earl Blaik (1986)
- Paul "Bear" Bryant (1983, posthumously)
- Roberto Clemente (2003, posthumously)
- Joe DiMaggio (1977)
- Billie Jean King (2009)
- Robert J. H. Kiphuth (1963)
- Stan Musial (2011)
- Jack Nicklaus (2005)
- Buck O'Neil (2006)
- Jesse Owens (1977)
- Arnold Palmer (2004)
- Richard Petty (1992)
- Frank Robinson (2005)
- Jackie Robinson (March 26, 1984, posthumously)
- Bill Russell (2011)
- Pat Summitt (2012)
- Ted Williams (1991)
- John Wooden (2003)
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)